WordPress Visual Header Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A missing authorization vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Visual Header plugin, specifically in versions through 1.3. This vulnerability allows exploitation of improperly configured access control security levels, potentially leading to unauthorized actions by users with lower privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to perform actions reserved for higher privileged users, due to the lack of proper authorization checks.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Visual Header plugin should update to version 1.5 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.